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FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015 MILDURAWEEKLY.COM.AU
V8 SUPERCAR Bathurst 1000
winner Mark Winterbottom
will touch down in Mildura
next month as part of the
third Let’s Torque Motorsport
Live gala motorsports night.
To be held on June 13, this
year’s event will also feature a
strong focus on Sunraysia’s
own legends of motorsport,
with 10-time Australasian
Safari winner John Hederics
and 10-time Australian Solo
Speedway champion Leigh
Adams on the billing, along
with former Australian Tour-
ing Car racer Phil Brock – the
brother of Peter Brock.
Next month’s event will
be the first time Winterbot-
tom, who currently sits third
in the V8 Supercar standings
after a dominant perfor-
mance at the previous round
in Perth, has appeared in Mil-
dura, providing a chance for
Sunraysia’s motorsport fans
to listen to, and meet, the
long-time Ford driver.
Winterbottom, who will
be brought to Mildura by
Markwell’s Auto Group, has
been one of the quickest and
most successful drivers in V8
Supercars over the past de-
cade.
The Pepsi Max Crew Pro-
drive Australia team driver has
finished the championship on
the podium six times since
2006, and never finished out-
side the top five during that
time, including ending the
2008 season in second spot.
Winterbottom’s appear-
ance in Mildura continues
the successful Let’s Torque
Motorsport Live series of gala
sportsman’s nights in Mildu-
ra, which in the past two years
has brought famous drivers
including Dick Johnson, Jim
Richards and John Bowe to
Sunraysia.
The gala sportsman’s
night is an extension of the
long-running Let’s Torque
Motorsport
radio show,
which ran for more than 15
years on both HOTFM and
StarFM radio stations, hosted
by Damion Bradshaw, Angelo
Halacas and Ben Piscioneri –
who now host Let’s Torque
Motorsport Live.
Not to be outdone, Sun-
raysia’s own internationally
recognised motorsport cham-
pions – John Hederics and
Leigh Adams – will also take
to the stage this year as part of
a stronger focus on the Mal-
lee’s reputation as a breeding
ground for successful racers.
Hederics, who will appear
at this year’s show thanks to
Pro Coat Sunraysia, holds leg-
endary status in the toughest
off-road event in the country,
winning the Australasian Sa-
fari a record 10 times.
He’s also the only man to
have won the event on a bike
and in a vehicle.
‘Hedge’ as he’s popularly
known, won the event six
timesonabike–threeina
row between 1990 and 1992
and, after a year off, another
three consecutive victories.
After a brief hiatus from
the event, John returned to
the Safari to win it another
four times, this time in a ve-
hicle, an unparalleled perfor-
mance which many say will
never be repeated.
Hederics’ efforts on a bike
were recently recognised by
Australia’s longest-running
off-road motorcycle maga-
zine, Australasian Dirt Bike,
being inducted into the mag-
azine’s Hall of Fame.
During the height of
his fame on a motorcycle,
Honda’s global headquarters
would fly the Sunraysia rider
to Japan each year to appear
in the country’s largest motor
shows, while Honda’s Aus-
tralian arm backed Hederics’
own three-rider desert racing
team during the 1990s.
After winning the Austral-
asian Safari at his first attempt
in a vehicle built entirely in
Sunraysia by Hederics and his
local team, the Holden Racing
Team head-hunted Hederics
to head up its official entry in
the event, working alongside
the legendary Peter Brock,
and later, Craig Lowndes, as
part of the PWR-backed rac-
ing team, which he won his
record 10th Safari with.
Fellow Sunraysia motor-
sport product, Leigh Adams,
remains one of the most suc-
cessful solo speedway riders
Australia has produced.
Adams, supported by
Mildura Motorcycles, won
a record 10 Australian Solo
Speedway titles, four Aus-
tralian Under-21 champion-
ships, is a multiple World
Speedway Grand Prix win-
ner – finishing second in
the 2007 World Title – and
has won multiple Speedway
World Cups in an interna-
tional speedway career span-
ning more than 20 years.
Despite retiring in 2010,
the Sunraysia export is still
revered in many parts of
Europe, including Poland,
where he was given the keys
to the city for his speedway
efforts and even had a town
street named after him.
Phil Brock meanwhile
will bring one of the most
famous names in Australian
motorsport to the district, not
only as the brother of the leg-
endary Peter Brock, but a suc-
cessful racer in his own right.
Brock raced for the Hold-
en Dealer Team in the 1970s,
and like his famous brother,
had a long association with
Holden that saw him win
the 1976 Sandown 500 and
finish runner up in the 1977
Bathurst 1000.
While successful as a rac-
er, Brock was also one of the
most sought after stunt driv-
ers in the country, performing
stunts in both the original
Max Mad film as well as Mad
Max Beyond Thunderdome.
He was also stunt co-ordi-
nator for the Mission Impos-
sible television series.
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• STAR STATUS: Pepsi Max Crew Prodrive Australia driver Mark Winterbottom, ABOVE, will be one of the star attractions of
next month’s Let’s Torque Motorsport Live event. He will be joined by Sunraysia’s John Hederics, BELOW, an iconic name in
Australian off-road racing. He is a record 10-time winner of the gruelling Australasian Safari, and is also the only man to have
won the event on a bike and in a car.
V8 Supercar star Mark
Winterbottom
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